Law and the Language of Identity : Discourse in the William Kennedy Smith Rape Trial.
Title:
Law and the Language of Identity : Discourse in the William Kennedy Smith Rape Trial.
Author:
Matoesian, Gregory M.
ISBN:
9780195352610
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (278 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Notes on Transcription -- Introduction -- 1 Overview of the William Kennedy Smith Rape Trial -- I: REPETITION IN THE PATRIARCHAL ORDER -- 2 Rhythms of Domination and the Gender of Inconsistency -- 3 Poetics of Space, Direction, and Movement -- II: INTERTEXTUALITY -- 4 Intertextuality, Reported Speech, and Affect -- 5 Production Media and Intertextual Authority in Reported Speech -- III: THE CONSTRUCTION AND DECONSTRUCTION OF EXPERT IDENTITY -- 6 The Grammaticalization of Participant Roles in the Constitution of Expert Identity -- 7 Constructing Age Identity in Expert Testimony -- IV: LANGUAGE AND LEGAL CHANGE -- 8 The Microdynamics of Legal Change -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.
Abstract:
In this volume, Gregory Matoesian uses the notorious 1991 rape trial of William Kennedy Smith to provide an in-depth analysis of language use and its role in that specific trial as well as in the law in general. He draws on the fields of conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, linguistic anthropology and social theory to show how language practices shape--and are shaped by--culture and the law, particularly in the social construction of rape as a legal fact. This analysis examines linguistic strategies from both defense and prosecutorial viewpoints, and how they relate to issues of gender, sexual identity, and power.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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